Game-counter



(No ModeL GILBERT,

GAME COUNTER.

No. 482,961. Patented Sept. 20, 1892.

"UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK A. GILBERT, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

GAME-COUNTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 482,961, datedSeptember 20, 1892.

A lication filed July 5, 1892. Serial No. 438,931. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK A. GILBERT, of Boston, in the county ofSuffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new Improvement inGan1e-Oounters 5 and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with accompanying drawings and the letters of referencemarked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in

Figure 1, a plan view of my improved device; Fig. 2, a similar view withthe rotatable disk thereof removed; Fig. 3, a detached reverse plan viewof the rotatable disk, and Fig. 4 a sectional view of the device on theline a b of Fig. 1.

My invention relates to an improvement in game-counters, the objectbeing to produce a simple, durable, compact, convenient, and reliabledevice.

With these ends in View my invention consists in a game-counter havingcertain details of construct-ion and combinations of parts, as will behereinafter described, and'pointed out in the claim.

The body A of the device consists of a thick disk of hard rubber, wood,metal, or any desired material having its edge scalloped, as shown, orotherwise adapted by indentations or serrations to be readily engagedand firmly held by the fingers. It is provided upon its upper face witha circular series of numbers, running, as herein shown, from 0 to 13 andregularly spaced. It is constructed with a circular central chamber B,entering it from its said upper face and having a shallow centraldepression B, which receives an antifriction-washer O. A thin metallicdisk D, slightly smaller in diameter than the body A, is placed upon theupper face thereof and is rotatable thereon. This disk is constructedwith a circular sight-opening D, located near one of its edges andarranged to successively expose the numbers before mentioned on the bodyA, all of the said numbers, except the one exposed through thesight-opening, being concealed normally by the disk. The said plate D isalso constructed with an operatingfinger D offsetting from its peripheryat a point opposite the opening D and carrying a pin D which extendsparallel with the scalloped edge of the body. The said plate is alsoconstructed with a locking-wheel E, having a regularly-indentedperiphery fixed to its inner face by pins 6 e and entering the chamberB, in which it is engaged by a locking-spring F, projecting centrallyinto the said chamber, the wall whereof is radially slitted, as at f, toreceive it. A screw G, passing centrally through the plate D and thewheel E, also passes through the washer O and into the body A and holdsthe said plate and wheel in place. The wheel rests upon the washer,which reduces the friction of its operation. The outer end of the screwis shouldered, as at G, to form a bearing for the wheel to turn upon,while the outer face of the plate is countersunk to receive the head ofthe screw. The wheel is constructed and arranged with reference to theperforation in the plate and to the numbers on the body, so that whenthe spring has entered one of its indentations the opening in the platewill be registered with one of the numbers on the body.

It will be understood that when the device is lying upon a card-table itmay be readily steadied thereupon by lightly engaging it with the thumband one finger, while its plate may be shifted in position by anotherfinger of the same hand, the locking spring causing the same to jumpfrom place to place.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecurebyLetters Patent, is--= In agame-counter, the combination, with adisk-shaped body having its edges scalloped or otherwise roughened andconstructed with a central chamber entering it from its upper face,which is encircled by a series of numbers, of a centrally-perforatedrotatable disk having bearing upon the said face of the body, andconstructed with a sight-opening in its edge to bring the said numbersinto View and provided with an operating-finger offsetting from itsedge, a locking-wheel having a regularly-indented periphery fixed t0 theinner face of the said disk and entering the said chamber in the body, aspring at- In testimony whereof I have signed this tached to the bodyand located in the said specification in the presence of twosubscribchamber and arranged to be engaged with the ing Witnesses.

said Wheel to lock the disk in place, and a FREDERICK A. GILBERT. 5screw passing through the disk and wheel into Witnesses:

the body for coupling the parts together, sub- CHARLES A. SNOW,

stantially as set forth. E. J. DANIELS.

